ask pardon

Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.”

There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.

“And politicians today can ask for forgiveness… That is the path of righteousness and virtue. If Japan can ask pardon for past mistakes and extend a hand, saying ‘let us work together for the sake of peace,’ I believe peace is indeed possible.”

“The proudest ministers of the proudest monarchs have trembled at their censures,” Wilson wrote, “and have appeared at the bar of the house, to give an account of their conduct, and ask pardon for their faults.”

‘You are speaking to the King’s friend, and one of the most renowned in all the lands of the West. You are a ruffian and a fool. Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll’s bane in you!’